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aitrh ems mm fitte- Joint ALTHOUSE, 01 EAST COGALICO TOWNSHIP,PENNSYLVANIA. Lam Patent No. 63,195, dated March 26, 1-867.

. IMPROVED-COMPOUND roars CURE or GLANDERS, 850., IN senses.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY 00mm.

Be it known that I, JOHN ALTHOTJSE, of East Gocalico Township, in thecounty ofLancaster, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new andimproved Compound for the Cure of Glan ders and Farcy in Horses;

and I do hereby declare that the following is-a.full;.and exactdescription of the articles employed, reference being bad to thereferences given, where the same are illustrated and fully describedatlarge, separately, in their vegetable growth, 1ocality, andproperties,so faras known to the authors.

I may be allowed to state that the glanders is the oppro'brz'ummedz'coruin, for hitherto no attempts have" succeeded in the cure ofmore than a few cases. By some peculiar anomaly in the constitution of.the horse, although conclusive proofs are not wanting that this andfarcy are modifications of one disease, and can each generate the other,yet the one is deemed incurable, while the other is cured every day. IIt is not mypnrpos'e to explain the cause of glanders, nor to designatethe marks by whichit is'known, neither to enter upon its treatment asrecommended by White, Clark, Blain, and others. H The treatment isacknowledged by competent writers to be so uncertain that it is hardlyworth making an efioi't, unless when the extreme value of the horse orthe love of experiment leads to'it. Such was my e rperienc'e, whichprompted me to compound and admin-' ister the remedy herein tobe fullysetforth and described, which did not only save me a valuable horse, but

has been found equally efficacious in numerous other'cases; so much sothat the public demands my secret, and

before yielding it up, so that my confidence can be abused, I desiretoprotect myself, so far at least as to being the originator and inventorof the earner i i i To enable others .to collect and compound my remedy,I will now describe the several plants used 'and mode ofmaking andadministering the combination, which consists simply of three articles,the roots ofC'onvolvulus (or Ipomcedipdnditratus, Daucus wrote, and theberriesof Piper m'grum or, in plain English, black pepper, rootoff wildcarrot, and wild potato, combined, when powdered, in equalproportionsbyweight. More fully described as follows: p I I The Comolmtlas(lpomtea) pandumtus has. a twining stem, eordate, or fiddle-shaped, (panduriform,) acuminate,ro und-lobcd leaves, with flowers, 1-5, corollaopen-funnel form. Described and figured fully in Griifiths MedicalBotany-Lezi& Blanchard, 1 847- page 476 Sp. PL, 219; Barton, Veg. Mat.Med, i, 249; Rafinesqne, Med. Flora, i, 123; Meyer (Ipomma) Prim.Esseq., 10Q;' Lindley, -Med.' Flor.,. 396'; Dr. A.. Grays' variousedition's -in that of 1862,- page The common names are that of wildpotato; wild rhubarb wild jalap mechameck; wild potato vineman-of-the-earth. Grows in sandy fieldsand dry ba'nks, from Connecticutto 'Illinois and southward. June to August. Stem long and stout, from ahuge thiclcroohvwhich often weighs ten to twenty pounds. v Dr. Griffithadmits (page 477) the real qualities of this article are not wellascertained. Drs B. S. Barton, Harris of New Jersey, Elliott, 'andothers, attribute to it active properties. In Goods Family Flora, andMateria Medica Botanica, &c., Article No.24, it is. compared with thevaluable drugs (or roots of) jalap and 'scammony." 'It is admitted tohave proved ei'lcaci'ous in torpid states of the intestines, ini'eucophlegmatic, hypochondriacal and maniacal subjccts,-&c. .The rootshould be collected, for

medical'purposes, at the end of summer, and if to be dried ought to becut in slices, and'kept in-a glass jar under cover. The Daucus carota,or common wild carrot, growing rather too spontaneously in oldfieldsa'n'd along the road sides, so much so as to be a troublesomeweed, difficult to eradicate in certain localities, and too familiar torequire a furtherd'escription;besides, by reference to said GriflithsMedical Botany, page 337,'or to D Grays Manual, page 152-, a fulldescription will'be found, so that no one can mistake the plant. InGerman it is known as the Germaine mohre. The wild plant or its-root ismore active than that of the cultivated or garden carrot,-and iscollected and treated as that of the Convoivalus panduratusfabovej setforth. The other ingredient is the common black pepper in'daily use,(Schwdrzer pfefier-Ger.,) and certainly requires' no furtherdescription, and is deemed superior to the use of capsicum, cubebs, oranalogous condiments, which may be substituted; hence do not confinemyself to the black pepper, so that to substitute any other kind ofpepper would change the compound I claim as my invention, were I toconfine myself strictlyto black pepper only, which I nevertheless employin preference to any other kind. The pulverized dried root (or gratedwhen fresh, with a slight increasein the weight) of each, say one ounce,combined with an ounce of ground 'black e er, forms one dose of threeounces weight. This is given every otherday with the horses feed,moistenedship-stuff, or the like, flD d COI ItiIIUQd for two or sixweeks, according to the obstinacy of the case. (Two weeks are usuallysuflicient'to efi'ect ajperm anentcure sometimes four weeksar'requ'ired,raxfel y six weks'.

The foregoing description and prescription ere deemed'emplysizificient,without the-exhibition of specimens 'or drawings, to enable anyone, ,Whowill choose to avail himself of the refererices, to co1leet, -prepare,and use my remedy'with per fect ease andperfection. I do 'not claim theuse of the aforesaid roots and pepper for any 'of their known orseparate properties. t

' What I'cleim as'my invention or discovery; is:- l The eomposition ofmy powder for the curepf glandersand fez-0y in horses, when combiped andadministered subs'tantiallf in the manner-specified. r V

. I JOHN ALTHOUSE.

Witnesses:

A; D. CARPENTER, BARTON P. BEAM.

